West Gallery Thebarton in Thebarton, South Australia | Art gallery

West Gallery Thebarton

Locality: Thebarton, South Australia

Phone: +61 439 996 957

Address: 32 West Thebarton Road 5031 Thebarton, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

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25.01.2022 LAST WEEKEND Only two more days to enjoy our final exhibitions for 2019. Bloom and Certain Chairs close tomorrow at 5pm. Bloom | A mixed group exhibition Certain Chairs | In memory of Gary Campbell... www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

25.01.2022 Three tickets to Sue's demonstration have just become available. Get in quick! Booking link below :)

24.01.2022 LAST DAYS Ebb | Chris de Rosa & Lesa Farrant Lesa Farrant has produced exquisite porcelain assemblages depicting local and introduced species that grow on the fragile sand dunes and coastal strips near her home. She combines these with porcelain casts of natural and foreign objects found on the seashore, created from plaster moulds of sea shells, sticks, plastic bottles and straws.... Ebb closes Sunday 1 November www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

24.01.2022 Artist talks | Margaret Ambridge & Mark Fitz-Gerald 2pm Saturday 24 October Please join us this Saturday to hear Margaret Ambridge and Mark Fitz-Gerald speak about the work in their current exhibition, Walk on By. Both artists are interested in the details that are often unnoticed, the small moments in time that are deserving of attention. When does the inconsequential become monumental and vice versa?... www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

23.01.2022 * LAST DAYS * Timeline | Dora Chapman & Richard Spoehr Don't miss this important exhibition that tells the compelling story of the artistic relationship between ceramicist Richard Spoehr and his Aunt, the painter Dora Chapman. It is the first time in fifty years that this series of Dora's prints have been shown as a group.... "Timeline is the reconciliation, not only between Dora and Richard, involving that all too human story of differing opinions and temperaments building a wall between people, it is also a reconciliation between the two ways of expression through different mediums, so that they become one continuous dialogue between colour and substance." - Christine McCormack Timeline closes this Sunday at 5pm. www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

23.01.2022 FINAL DAYS | Bloom This is your last week to experience Barrie Goddard's 60 Bougainvillea drawings in all their magnificence. The exhibition closes this Sunday at 5pm. "One of my great inspirations to produce an extended drawing series of Bougainvilleas is the remarkable story of Jeanne Baret, assistant to Philibert Commerson the botanist to admiral and explorer Louis de Bougainville, who led the first French expedition to circumnavigate the entire globe (1766-1769). As a mem...ber of Bougainville’s ship’s company on this voyage, Baret became the first recorded woman to do the same. Baret was a gifted herbalist whose quest to discover, catalogue and study new plants was motivated by an interest in their medicinal rather than floral properties." Barrie Goddard www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

22.01.2022 If you are unable to attend tomorrow's artist talks with Margaret Ambridge and Mark Fitz-Gerald, we have some good news. Margaret is sitting the gallery all day today until 5pm. She'd love to see you! Walk on By | Margaret Ambridge and Mark Fitz-Gerald 1 October - 1 November 2020 www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

21.01.2022 Ian Hamilton | Bowerbird In 1978 Ian was awarded an Arts SA grant to study the art of the golden bowerbird. Over a two-month period in the summer of 1978-79, he completed the first of several field studies in world heritage rain forests. He has been making art based on those field trips ever since. The works in this exhibition build on work done over many years, starting with early field drawings and leading to increasingly abstract forms.... Bowerbird | 17 June - 18 July 2021 www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

21.01.2022 Christmas @ West Gallery Thebarton The back room of the gallery is packed with treasures. Perfect Christmas presents, dare we suggest it! There are ceramics by Samone Turnbull, Alison Main, Jo Crawford and Josephine Powell, etchings by Kyoko Imazu and Margie Sheppard, paintings by Betty Smart and collage works by Janette Gay. ... Until Sunday 13 December. www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

20.01.2022 Sam Howie | Visible Silence | 5 Nov - 13 Dec Sam Howie’s contemplative paintings reference times past. He focuses on the hand drawn straight line, a basic element of drawing. The ideas behind this new body of work are anthropological in nature and represented through his use of abstract symbolism. Howie feels that the universality of the hand-drawn straight line references the visual language of the original scratched marks on rock surfaces in ancient caves as well as the mar...k-making language used by many artists today. Sam is exhibiting alongside Lucia Dohrmann and Deborah Sleeman until Sunday 12 December. www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

19.01.2022 * OPENING TODAY * Ian Hamilton | Bowerbird 17 June - 18 July 2021... Image: Twin Towers (for P. newtoniana) (detail), 2021, Acrylic over inkjet print on canvas, 210 x 100cm www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

19.01.2022 Here's a lovely way to enjoy our current SALA exhibitions without leaving home. Created by artist Sue Michael in response to Covid-19 restrictions, this delightful film documents the three solo exhibitions by Jonathan Kim, Sue Michael and Margie Sheppard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4IhTbzTyU Jonathan Kim | Inner via Outer... Sue Michael | Winter Margie Sheppard | Time and Space Until 27 September www.westgallerythebarton.com.au See more

18.01.2022 FARSISS | Cohabitation Chronicles Collaborative prints by Fanny Retsek & Sandra Starkey Simon Fanny and Sandra collaborate to create traditional prints with radical intent. Along with a shared love, respect and concern for living things and the environment, Fanny and Sandra share a passion for traditional printmaking techniques, and print’s history of activism. These prints not only tell personal stories, but also address climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, and the s...ixth extinction. Orcas, Strait of Georgia; Escarpment, Ikara-Flinders Ranges, 2020, Monotype, 64 x 45cm Cohabitation Chronicles | 17 June - 18 July 2021 www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

18.01.2022 Visible Silence | Lucia Dohrmann, Sam Howie & Deborah Sleeman 5 November - 13 December 2020 Our final exhibition for the year, Visible Silence is the overarching title of three discrete exhibitions by South Australian artists. Each has created works which acknowledge the passing of time through their actual making and by tapping into our collective memories and histories. ... Photo credit: Sam Roberts www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

18.01.2022 West Gallery is closed for a refresh until May 2020. Our exciting program for 2020 opens on 21 May with Constant Gardeners, featuring artists and environmentalists Samone Turnbull, Stephen Killick and Jo Davidson. We’re honoured to have Ross Garnaut, world-renowned economist and renewable energy advocate, speak at the opening on Friday 22 May. We look forward to seeing you there for another year of exceptional art and artists. www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

17.01.2022 Artists Jonathan Kim and Sue Michael are in the gallery today and tomorrow. This is a great opportunity to have a quiet chat to them about their exhibitions, with the calming sound of Jonathan's brass bowl in the background. Jonathan Kim | Inner via Outer Sue Michael | Winter Margie Sheppard | Time and Space... Until Sunday 27 September See more

17.01.2022 And we're back! The gallery has reopened for 2020 with three solo exhibitions by Jonathan Kim, Sue Michael and Margie Sheppard. Each artist has created new work that reflects time quietly spent re-evaluating priorities. Jonathan Kim | Inner via Outer... Sue Michael | Winter Margie Sheppard | Time and Space 13 August - 27 September 2020 www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

16.01.2022 * IF YOU MISSED IT * If you weren't able to get to Christine McCormack's highly regarded artist talk last month, here is a link to her notes: https://www.westgallerythebarton.com.au/more Christine provides fascinating insights into her work as well as that of Dora Chapman and Richard Spoehr. ... "As a very young man, Richard told me he felt that Dora was like a guru - she was never warm and inviting, though. You had to gain her confidence and by the time you did that, she didn’t want you to leave. You had to deserve her trust. It was like going into the lion’s den, he said to me. You never knew what to expect. You had to manage being with her, on her own terms. He was in awe of what Dora was doing as an artist - and she had such a strong influence on his approach to looking at colour and form in art in those formative years." Timeline | Dora Chapman & Richard Spoehr The Nirvana of Un-Named Things | Christine McCormack Both exhibitions close this Sunday at 5pm.

15.01.2022 Artist talks - 2pm Saturday 10 October Ebb | Chris de Rosa & Lesa Farrant Please join us on Saturday to hear artist friends Chris de Rosa and Lesa Farrant speak about the inspiration behind the works in their current exhibition Ebb.... Ebb runs until Sunday 1 November www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

14.01.2022 Sue Michael | Winter "This year has afforded me time to revisit my numerous sketch books, or pieces of paper scribbled upon as a passenger on car trips, and endless notes written in the early hours of the morning in some lonely, arid outpost. I have re-investigated winter life in regional South Australia, for some systems of being will not care about our ‘mere mortal‘ worries. Little shrubs will soak up the few drops of rain, the churning winter storm waves will roll in, and... the green will softly blanket the hills once again. People will still fashion winter quilts, dry their jumpers inside, and a dog will find the most favourable place in front of the fire." Sue Michael | Winter Jonathan Kim | Inner via Outer Margie Sheppard | Time and Space Until Sunday 27 September www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

08.01.2022 Photo credit: Sam Roberts

05.01.2022 Margie Sheppard | Time and Space The works in Margie's current exhibition were created during recent months of quiet meditation and isolation in the wide open spaces of the west coast of South Australia. In these large abstract paintings, spherical forms are intersected by linear elements which form new shapes floating as delicate layers, evocative of sky and seaconstants in nature. Margie Sheppard | Time and Space... Sue Michael | Winter Jonathan Kim | Inner via Outer Until 27 September www.westgallerythebarton.com.au See more

05.01.2022 LAST DAYS for Mark Fitz-Gerald in Walk on By. "About 20 years ago, I started paying attention to marks made in concrete. I am interested in false notions of permanence and what both the act of mark making and the content said about us." Walk on By | Margaret Ambridge & Mark Fitz-Gerald... Closing 5pm Sunday 1 November www.westgallerythebarton.com.au See more

04.01.2022 We are open again as of tomorrow (Sunday) from 1pm. Lucia Dohrmann's delicately stained and deconstructed canvases are the perfect antidote to the worries of the past few days and months. Visible Silence features works by Lucia Dohrmann, Deborah Sleeman and Sam Howie. The exhibition runs until Sunday 13 December.... www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

04.01.2022 To our valued friends and supporters, this is simply to let you know that West Gallery Thebarton is temporarily closed until further notice. Our first exhibition for the year, Constant Gardeners, with Samone Turnbull, Stephen Killick and Jo Davidson, will now take place early 2021. We will let you know of further changes to our exhibition schedule should these arise.... In the meantime, we are exploring other ways to stay connected with you. We are putting our energy into the online space - creating a gallery on our website and short videos to give you insights into West Gallery artists and their beautiful work. We will keep you updated via social media and emails (please sign up via the website if you'd like to keep in touch). For any enquiries or online sales, please get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you back when things settle. Wishing you all the best and, most of all, good health in these uncertain times. www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

04.01.2022 Chris de Rosa & Lesa Farrant | Ebb Shoreline walks have provided inspiration and, in some cases, the actual materials for Chris de Rosa's work in this exhibition. With Farrant she shares a concern and interest in the combination of marine organisms and shoreline detritus: a reflection of the effects of human activity on the natural marine environment. Ebb runs until Sunday 1 November... www.westgallerythebarton.com.au See more

02.01.2022 * OPENING TODAY * Cohabitation Chronicles | FARSISS Collaborative Prints by Fanny Retsek & Sandra Starkey Simon 17 June - 18 July 2021... Giant Squid, Gulf of Mexico; Riverbank, Ikara-Flinders Ranges, 2020, Monotype, 64 x 45cm www.westgallerythebarton.com.au

01.01.2022 Back by popular demand! Sue Michael is running a second gelatine plate printmaking demonstration and talk at 2pm Saturday 19 September Limited seats - bookings required. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/gelatine-plate-monoprint-de